Working in financial market infrastructure changes how you think about uptime, observability, and change management. Here's what that environment actually teaches you.
High CPU alerts are standard. Alerting on unexpectedly low traffic is not — and it's often the difference between finding out about an outage yourself versus your customers finding out first.
Infrastructure as Code done badly is worse than no IaC at all. Here are the four anti-patterns I keep seeing in inherited Terraform codebases.